Quotes About Boredom

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost.

There is an entry in Baudelaire's Journal Intime that is fearful in the precision of its cynicism: "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

Perfection would be a bore, wouldn't it? CAMPBELL: It would have to be. It would be inhuman

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

Is that not blasphemy? Defying the will of the Covenant?' 'No,' said the captain. 'It was a tactical retreat in the face of overwhelming boredom.

I had thought that if I kept myself busy, time would move faster, but no matter what I did, every second felt like an hour.

Boredom is easy. Which is why sadness hides there so readily. But don't be fooled for long. Dying of boredom. There's reason behind that idiom. It'll kill you sure enough.

It is difficult to enjoy people for whom we have waited too long. And in this familiar situation, which evokes such intensities of feeling, we wait and we try to do something other than waiting, and we often get bored - the boredom of protest that is always a screen for rage.

Perhaps they are worse than evil—they are bored," Petra said.

But I also found my depression tedious—tedious to live through, tedious to explain, tedious to be around. I was bored by my own relentless loop and felt sure I was boring everyone around me.

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

I just lost interest in performing.

Sometimes you need to get bored but when you get bored you persist in what you're doing and you get better.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment but of boredom.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

I've read Waiting for Godot three times and I still can't tell you what it is about. If, as some critics claim, it is about being bored while waiting for God to return, then it's even duller than I thought.

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